1949 results for: ACT-UP/Seattle
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City of Seattle Health Office, Yesler Way, circa 1900
The Seattle City Council created the position of City Health Officer in 1877. The Health Officer had the responsibility to abate nuisances affecting the public health and to prevent the spread of contagious disease, especially smallpox. Between 1877 and 1890, ten different local doctors served in the role. An amended City Charter in 1908 replaced the Board of Health with…
ID Number:SHS218
Date:Circa 1900
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North Pacific Brewery, Columbia and 1st Ave., Seattle, 1874
Commercial beer brewing began in Seattle around 1854 when Antonio B. Rabbeson founded Washington Brewery; by the spring of 1864 he was advertising his porter, beer, and cream ales. On February 1, 1865, Martin Schmieg and Joseph Butterfield announced their new North Pacific Brewery, on the southwest corner of Columbia Street and Front Street (now First Avenue). Butterfield later sold…
ID Number:SHS240
Date:1874
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Dexter Horton home, 3rd and Seneca, Seattle, circa 1875
In 1853 Dexter Horton (1825-1904) came to Seattle with his first wife, Hannah Eliza (Shoudy) Horton (1828-1871), and their daughter, Rebecca. Developing a reputation as an honest businessman, he established the city's first real bank. Horton was also a founding volunteer in various social organizations, including the Seattle Library Association in 1873 and the Seattle Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)…
ID Number:SHS243
Date:Circa 1875
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City Hall at 3rd and Jefferson, Seattle, circa 1900
In 1876, King County purchased a lot from Henry Yesler for the price of $3,500 and built the first King County building on county owned property. The two-story wood, stone and brick structure occupied the corner of Third Avenue and Jefferson Street (the present site of City Hall Park) and cost $17,000 to build. It housed the jail in the…
ID Number:SHS250
Date:Circa 1900
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Intelligencer building at 1st and Cherry, circa 1876
Seattle's oldest newspaper, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, was founded in 1863 as the weekly Seattle Gazette, when Seattle was little more than a sawmill, a few dozen wooden buildings, and a couple of hundred people. This image shows the paper's new building, constructed in 1874 by Henry Yesler at Front Street (now First Avenue) and Cherry Street. The name on the…
ID Number:SHS252
Date:Circa 1876
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John Leary home, 2nd and Madison, Seattle, circa 1890
John Leary (1837-1905) came to Seattle in 1869 and was involved with virtually every major civic and commercial undertaking in Seattle in the 1870s and 1880s. He was the first president of the West Coast Improvement Company (WCIC), which shaped Ballard into the “Shingle Capitol of the World” (Leary Way still bears his name). Leary served three terms as a member…
ID Number:SHS258
Date:Circa 1890
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Elizabeth and Martin Stacy home, 3rd and Marion, Seattle, 1885
In 1885 real estate investor Martin Van Buren Stacy (1837-1901) and his wife, Elizabeth A. Briggs Stacy (1824-1904), spent approximately $50,000 to erect their second home in Seattle, located at Third Avenue and Marion Street, in the grand French Second Empire style. After the Stacy's moved out in 1889 (their third home at 1004 Boren Street is now the University…
ID Number:SHS263
Date:1885
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Henry and Minnie Yesler home, 3rd and James, Seattle, circa 1895
In 1884 lumberman and Seattle's first millionaire, Henry L. Yesler (1810-1892), and his wife, Sarah Burgert Yesler (1822-1887) built their mansion on the block between Third and Fourth Avenues at James Street. Sarah died shortly after they moved in, and Yesler married a young cousin, Minnie Gagle Yesler (born c. 1867), who lived in the house after his death until…
ID Number:SHS267
Date:Circa 1895
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Members of Seattle Volunteer Fire Company No. 1, 2nd and Columbia, Seattle, 1883
The creation of the Seattle Fire Department (SFD) can be traced back to July 6th, 1876, when the all-volunteer Seattle Engine Company No.1 was organized. In 1883, the City Charter was amended to create and fund equipment, but not staff, for a centralized municipal fire department. The volunteer-based system persisted until pressure from the insurance industry and citizens after the…
ID Number:SHS323
Date:1883
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Men inside Dexter Horton Bank, Seattle, 1882
In 1870 Seattle pioneer Dexter Horton (1825-1904) opened the first business in Seattle dedicated to serving as a bank. Dexter Horton Bank was one of the corporate ancestors of Seattle First National Bank, which eventually merged into the Bank of America.This image taken of the interior of the Dexter Horton Bank at the northwest corner of Commercial Street (First Avenue…
ID Number:SHS338
Date:1882